Stations and newspapers would examine an ad and then do a report on whether it was true, false, or---and this was almost always the case---somewhere in between.
Read this story in TIME Magazine about how muddied the waters have become, with all of the special interests using the fact-check model to the point that nobody except the most diligent of voters can tell who's staying ever remotely close to telling the truth.
Alabama visitors will be interested in visiting Bama Fact Check, a service of state media outlets that try to stay above the fray and make honest judgments about the truth of fairness of claims by politicians.
[UPDATE: To clarify, I DO trust Bama Fact Check, of which The Anniston Star is a founding member.]
--Coming up on Monday in the MMMM: Hollywood uses a former apartment-building turned hotel in the Deep South as a hotel turned apartment-building in the North. Keep your eye on the ball for this one..coming Monday, here at www.timlennox.com--
[The Monday--and sometimes Saturday--Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of this website.]
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